A Room of One's Own: Popular Penguins

Virginia Woolf

A Room of One's Own grew out of a lecture that Virginia Woolf had been invited to give at Girton College, Cambridge in 1928. Ranging over Jane Austen and Charlotte Bronte and why neither of them could have written War and Peace, over the silent fate of Shakespeare's gifted (and imaginary) sister, over t...

Her Fidelity

Katharine Pollock

A very funny confessional novel set in one of the only Australian independent record stores still functioning, if barely. This is High Fidelity with a female gaze. Her Fidelity is the comedic, confessional story of 29-year-old Kathy, who is in a state of arrested development. Kathy has accidentally cont...